[Leaplist] Fedora Install Disks, by OSDisc won't work

[William H. Ferguson]

Hi, Bruce,

I've been fooled more than once by forgetting about
the Boot Sequence in BIOS.

I had about decided that my trouble was with the 32 bit processor vs 64
bit
when your post arrived.

I immediately changed the Boot Sequence so Linux would look at the DVD
drive first and then the Install software thereafter began to run just
fine..

Now I'm gonna try the Fedora core 9  Install disk and see if it'll run,
too.

Still haven't had any one contact me who is eager to teach me some Linux
stuff.

Best to you
and
Thanks very much for the reminder.

William
Flagler Beach



On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:09 -0400, Bruce Metcalf wrote:
> William H. Ferguson wrote:
> 
> > I own a Fedora Core 9 Installation disc bought from OS Disc Co.
> > I also own a Fedora Core 8 Installation disc bought from OS Disc Co.
> > 
> > I have installed Fedora core  8 on a computer using the OS Disc product
> > and it worked fine.
> > 
> > I have installed Fedora core 9 on two separate comuters using the OS
> > Disc product and it worked fine.
> > 
> > I own a third older computer which runs Fedora core 5 as its Op.
> > System. This computer has both a DVD/CD drive and a CD Drive. When I
> > boot the computer it works fine.... While it's older, it hasn't been
> > used much and there's plenty of free space on it in all partitions. I
> > mean Gigabytes of free space in root, in home, in var and in temp,
> > etc.
> > 
> > I put the OS Disc Co.'s Install Fedora core 9 disc in this older
> > machine, booted the machine expecting the Install Fedora core 9 
> > screen to show up, but instead, the computer booted into Fedora core
> > 5.
> >
> > I removed the FC-9 install disk from the machine ... and put in the
> > Fedora core 8 Installation Disc. ... Again, the machine booted to
> > Fedora core 5.
> > 
> > Any suggestions re what might be wrong?
> 
> The boot source is determined by your BIOS. Go in there and change the 
> boot source to the correct disc drive.
> 
> You didn't say if the OS Disc Co.'s products were CD or DVD. It may well 
> be that your BIOS is only able to boot from CD, in which case there is 
> no way to install from a DVD without an upgrade to your BIOS, which may 
> not even be available.
> 
> But you´ll have to go into Setup to see what your options are.
> 
> Bruce
> 


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